The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, January 4, 1889 Rutland 1/4/1889 The Vermont Marble Co. has purchased all the real estate, personal property, book accounts, marble in the yard, and also the interests in the branch yards at Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Toledo, and St. Louis, of the well-known marble firm of GILSON & WOODFIN, whose quarry, mills, and yard, are at West Rutland. The property cost the Vermont Marble company in the neighborhood of $300,000. Neither Mr. GILSON nor Mr. WOODFIN have any definite business plans for the future. A. E. BALL has entered the insurance business with C. PARMENTER. A survey is being made for the extension of State street from the bridge westward to Evergreen Cemetery. Several houses are in course of construction in this vicinity. The lots here have extended views of the town, and of the Rutland valley. 1,800 persons rode on the street-cars between here and West Rutland, one day last week. Mrs. F. Louise NEWALL, daughter of Deacon Luther ANGIER, Cottage street, died at her home in Shelburn, Saturday morning. A. H. PORTER, alias HIGGINS, of Hancock, was arrested at Rutland, last week, for kidnapping the 11-year-old son of Charles J. BROWN of Goshen. PORTER had just arrived at Rutland, when the father followed and saw his son. Then PORTER lost no time in going to the depot, bought a ticket, and would have escaped if all haste had not been made to get a warrant from State Attorney DANA. PORTER was arraigned in court, Friday morning, and was held in $1,000 bonds, which he was unable to furnish. Later he was sentenced to two years in state prison, and taken to Windsor, Monday. He is also wanted by the government on charge of personating a postal official. He travelled through the mountain town, inspecting post offices, to which the postmasters submitted, never any of them having seen a post office inspecter, and allowed him to examine their accounts, stamps and cash on hand. The money, he represented, could be charged up to the government as paid the inspector for examining the office. He has already spent two years in State prison. Transcribed by Ruth Barton -- Ruth Barton [email protected] Dummerston, VT